D.C. Circuit Breakers

Liberals try to intimidate judges who review regulation.

Nov. 6, 2012 6:49 p.m. ET

Federal regulators have been watching in horror as some of their best-laid rules are overturned in court. You might think the sensible response would be to rewrite those rules to comport with the law. Instead, they've launched a campaign to blame and stigmatize the judicial referees.

In recent weeks, liberal journalists have unleashed a remarkable assault on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's leading appellate court for legal challenges to new regulation. This is the court that produced Supreme Court Justices...